Tom
Collom, a district biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife, said OR-33 has been traversing land west of Swan Lake Valley,
between Klamath Falls and Dairy, for about 10 days.
Collom said
the public has reported sightings of the wolf to ODFW. The agency
conducted an aerial survey from a helicopter and confirmed the wolf is
traveling by itself.

“We’ve been in contact with landowners of
properties he’s been in the vicinity of in North Poe Valley and the Swan
Lake area,” Collom said. “We are trying to be transparent, letting
livestock producers know when he’s in the area. We’ve had no reports of
depredation issues.”

Collom said OR-33 got into a couple cow carcasses on private property and the landowners have since buried the remains.

Wildlife
officials trapped and fit OR-33 with a GPS radio collar last February,
when he was still a member of the Imnaha Pack - the same pack from which
the wolves OR-7 and OR-25 dispersed.

Collom said after leaving
the pack, OR-33 traveled west into the Columbia River Gorge before
moving south into the Ochoco Mountains, east of Prineville, and moving
through the desert toward Fort Rock Valley.

OR-33 continued traveling south, on the east side of Crescent and Chemult, before landing in southern Klamath County.

Collom
said OR-33 took a similar path to OR-7 and OR-25. OR-33’s collar is
programmed to send location signals twice per day, but officials have
only been receiving data once every two days or so.
OR-25 is a
male that made his first appearance in Klamath County in May 2015. He
left the Imnaha pack in March 2015. He is known to travel between
Klamath County and Northern California, and has been on the west side of
Upper Klamath Lake near Keno and Rocky Point.

OR-25 is believed to have attacked three calves on a ranch near the upper Williamson River in late October or early November.

Collom
said a recent collar transmission placed OR-25 east of the Williamson
River, in Lake County. He said the wolf is likely searching for food and
a mate.

OR-7 was the first GPS radio-collared Imnaha wolf to make
its way to Klamath County. OR-7 found a mate and became a breeding pair
in May 2014. OR-7, his mate and their offspring have been named the
Rogue Pack. OR-7 is known to travel across the Klamath-Jackson County
line, near Fort Klamath.

Another collared Imnaha wolf, OR-3, was
spotted in northern Klamath County in October. Collom said the wolf’s
collar does not transmit GPS signals and officials don’t know where the
wolf is now.

A radio-collared female, OR-28, was detected in
Klamath County in November. OR-28 dispersed from the Mount Emily Pack in
Umatilla County. She traveled in northern Klamath and Lake counties
before settling in near Silver Lake in northern Lake County.

“We’ve
confirmed that she is with what appears to be a male,” Collom said,
noting that officials do not believe the male is fitted with a radio
collar.
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Information from: Herald and News, http://www.heraldandnews.com

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